On Oct 17, 2:51 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brendan schrieb: > > > The current CentOs Linux distro includes python 2.4.3. I need to > > install a more recent version but I am worried about breaking CentOs > > python dependencies. Is it safe to install python 2.6 using pup? > > It should be, yes. Usually, Distros make sure it doesn't break anything > - and python can have several installations living happily along each > other. > > The only caveat I see is that you might accidentially replace > /usr/bin/python with the newer version. Make sure you keep that to the > one the system wants, and simply use python2.6 as executable-name. > > Diez
If you install from sources, the safest path is to run $ sudo make altinstall (will add the version number to the executable) and NOT $ sudo make install -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
